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Example sentences for "well knew"

  • This being arranged, he was brought before my lord and my lady, and acted his part as he well knew how.

  • And as a token of her truth, she placed inside the letter a diamond ring he well knew.

  • I think it was addressed to you, and I left it on my dressing-table.

  • I'm treating you with all the freedom of an old friend of my cousin's.

  • He well knew that a press scandal is a nine-day fever, but a menaced publicity is a chronic malady that may go on for years.

  • This sudden departure of his would, he well knew, displease Kearney.

  • If he failed, the misfortune was his; and the misfortune, as he well knew, was one which it was hard to bear.

  • For, of course, as he well knew, she had never loved her husband.

  • He was not there, as he well knew, in his friend Doodles' sense of the word.

  • In doing this, he said, he should not consider himself as acting against his natural sovereign, because he well knew he ought to look for him in the person of the King of France.

  • No, this did not explain everything, as I well knew at the time, and should, consequently, have studied my characters more thoroughly.

  • He well knew that he would have to fly the country if Gaston received this letter.

  • But no; he well knew that he ran no risk, not even that of being arrested and sent to the galleys.

  • The Marquis of Hertford, chamberlain to the regent, well knew, at this period, how to estimate medicinal cause and effect!

  • From the time that he left the deck, until the sun laved its burnished orb in the sea, the individual, who so well knew how to keep alive his authority among the untamed tempers that he governed, was seen no more.

  • The other, seeing a figure within hearing, which he well knew to be that of his Commander, waited an instant, to ascertain if what he heard was true.

  • Wilder hastened to relieve a curiosity that he well knew must be as painful as it was natural.

  • Not even his fortune could ripen the figs, as he well knew.

  • Queen Rosewhite assured him that it was twenty years as he well knew.

  • He well knew who it was who had given her the holy relics.

  • No allusion was made to the subject which he well knew was in their minds, however, until, meeting Mr. Chittenden, the latter drew him aside into an alcove.

  • Bourdois, a most skillful physician whose name he well knew, having taken care to acquaint himself with all our celebrities of every kind.

  • I liked and esteemed sincerely Dazincourt, whose acquaintance I had made several years before his death; and few men better deserved or so well knew how to gain esteem and affection.

  • David seemed almost overcome by a few of the charming words of appreciation she so well knew how to say, and said so opportunely.

  • He well knew that he had done that which at Saint Germains must be regarded as inexpiable.

  • From the benefit of that Act he was by name excluded; but he well knew that he had now nothing to fear.

  • Aylesbury had been arrested, and committed to the Tower; and he well knew that, if these men appeared against him, his head would be in serious danger.

  • And then the doctor used his surgical lore, as he well knew how to use it.

  • He, Mr Nearthewinde, was doing his business as he well knew how to do it; and it was not likely that he should submit to be lectured by such as Mr Moffat on a trumpery score of expense.

  • I was no merchant, nor had I any mercantile education, so I took lessons from Mr. Booth, and allowed him to make out for me a bill of goods such as he well knew I needed.

  • I dreaded the ordeal, but no escape was possible, and I entered the house for what I well knew was to be the last time.

  • Every road, we well knew, would be patrolled by Federal pickets; only the broken country between could yield us the faintest prospect of success.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancestor worship; fallen leaves; much expedition; suffrage bill; well advised; well assured; well browned; well built; well buttered; well convinced; well defined; well done; well dried; well informed; well knowne; well mixed; well paid; well preserved; well said; well skilled; well skimmed; well suited; well understood; well washed; well with; well written